Overview
- Season 2 opens Dec. 28 at 3 p.m. ET on ABC with a New York vs. Atlanta rematch, as all six teams return to the SoFi Center in Palm Beach Gardens.
- The GreenZone putting complex grows 38% to 5,270 square feet with 12 hole locations and 608 morphing‑green actuators, plus larger bunkers and expanded hitting boxes.
- New unorthodox designs debut alongside team‑specific signature par‑5s over 600 yards created with architects such as Gil Hanse, Agustin Piza and Beau Welling.
- Production adds 79 cameras, 8K ultra‑slow‑motion, SmartPin Cam, virtual angles, Virtual Eye and Unity 6 graphics, with ESPN leaning on 20 matches of data for richer analysis.
- Tiger Woods will not play at the start after recent back and Achilles surgeries but is expected to attend Jupiter Links matches with a live mic, and Justin Thomas will also miss the start for Atlanta after a November microdiscectomy.